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Capitol Crude: The US Energy Policy Podcast

May 18, 2020

The US House of Representatives has passed the $3 trillion HEROES stimulus package with barely a mention of the energy sector. The legislation is going nowhere in its current form after Senate Republicans dismissed it out of hand and President Trump promised to veto it.

So where is the financial aid that the White House...


May 11, 2020

Plunging demand, collapsing prices and a reeling global economy are creating an extremely tough climate for the US upstream oil and gas sector.

US Senator Dan Sullivan, Republican-Alaska, argues another factor is basically kicking the sector while it's down.

Sullivan says some of the largest US banks are no longer...


May 4, 2020

US President Donald Trump has promised relief to the ailing oil and gas sector, and it's not yet clear if the recently expanded Federal Reserve lending program is the full extent of that aid.

Democrats easily blocked the administration's first attempt to help drillers in the form of buying US crude at low prices to...